Streaming

The Presto Music Streaming Service has been created specifically for classical and jazz lovers. Whether you want to listen to old classical favourites, discover unfamiliar composers and their works, or follow the latest emerging jazz artists, the Presto Music streaming service will guide you in your music journey, with editorial reviews, features, interviews and recommendations, combined with the highest possible fidelity and audio quality of any available music streaming service. We also have a search engine built for classical music, which allows easy discoverability of composers, works, artists and genres. For more information and to sign up to a monthly or yearly subscription plan, please visit Presto Music Streaming

We offer Android and iOS mobile apps, a web streaming app and desktop apps (for both Windows and Mac). We also have an integration with BluOS and offer a standalone Streamer to connect with your existing Hi-Fi. On the mobile apps you may also download albums to listen offline.

We’re very pleased to be able to offer over 200,000 albums at CD-quality sound, and over 34,000 albums, including almost all new releases, at ‘Hi-Res’ audio quality (up to 24-bit, 192kHz)

Yes. We have digital booklets for over 70,000 albums.

There are many benefits to the Presto Music streaming service including an extensive catalogue of 200,000 classical and jazz albums; over 70,000 digital booklets, for the collector in all of us; reviews and guides to the best new releases; daily articles from our team of music experts; curated playlists to help you make new discoveries; fairer remuneration for artists & composers with our pay-per-second model; the ability to create your own collections of albums, composers, artists & labels; Hi-Res Audio and connectivity with 24-bit 192 kHz via our desktop app, dedicated streamer, or any BluOS enabled device.

Labels increasingly allow one or more tracks to be listened to in advance of the release date of the whole album. You’ll find these now on the home page (and elsewhere) with the ‘coming soon’ sash on the corner of the cover. If you like what you hear, you can add the album to your collection to make it easy to find once the official release date arrives.

We plan to add this facility for users to create their own playlists, later in 2024.

Yes, you can listen to our streaming service offline when on a mobile device. Simply click on "Save Offline". Once saved, you will find your saved album within "Collection".

Yes. Our Streaming Service is available on Android and iOS mobile apps, a web streaming app, and a desktop app (for Windows, Intel Macs and Apple Silicon Macs)

You can download our streaming apps here, for mobile, desktop or web - Presto Music Streaming Apps

Yes. You can read all about our Desktop App here - Presto Music Streaming Desktop App

Yes. Download the Presto Music streaming app and log in using the same details as your account on our website. You will now have access to all your full album physical & digital purchases within the app, as long as they have a digital version. You can access your purchased items by going to Collection > Purchased.

Many of our customers have nice Hi-Fi set-ups at home which they use for CDs and downloads, and one of the challenges with a streaming service is being able to use it seamlessly with an existing Hi-Fi set-up. Whilst Airplay and Bluetooth can sometimes help, they don’t work with all Hi-Fi set-ups and, in any case, are not a perfect solution, so we’ve started work with several different manufacturers to deliver truly integrated compatibility. Realistically, this is going to take some time. However, if you are a BluOS user you will now find a custom integration to Presto Music within the BluOS Controller Apps. For those not already familiar with BluOS, it is a system which allows certain wireless speakers and streamers to function independently or add streaming functionality to an existing Hi-Fi set-up, with their most popular device being the Node streamer. BluOS is the only system to fully support both multi-room and Hi-Res audio streaming. A good starting place for more information is: bluesound

No, not at the moment, but we're working on it. In the meantime, some Sonos speakers do support Airplay and Bluetooth. 

Connect your bluetooth speakers to your phone or tablet by following the manufacturer's instructions. If music continues to play through your device's speakers instead, ensure "Media Audio" is selected in the device settings.

Connect your bluetooth speakers to your phone or tablet by following the manufacturer's instructions. If music continues to play through your device's speakers instead, ensure "Media Audio" is selected in the device settings.

Connection to audio speakers and third party speakers is a high priority for us, and we are working towards a number of solutions. At present, our service will connect wired from your computer, mobile device and tablet to an audio system or Airplay and Bluetooth.

With our new streaming service, we move away from the pay-per-track model adopted by all the major streaming services and instead use a pay-per-second model. Classical pieces vary enormously in length, with a Mahler Symphony often racking up over an hour for just 4 ‘tracks’ (movements) whereas a recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations would generally cover 33 tracks in under an hour. This means that on other services a single listen to the Bach album generates more than eight times the revenue than a listen to the Mahler Symphony. Furthermore, on the major streaming services, classical and jazz listening is also diluted by other genres. We suspect that the average classical and jazz listener will often make specific time to listen to music, sitting down and focussing on what they are hearing, and as such they’ll listen to a lot less music during the day than a typical pop or casual listener who may choose a playlist and press play first thing in the morning, and then leave it running all day until they go to bed at night. By focussing on just classical and jazz we avoid this dilution problem, and ensure that the labels, composers and musicians receive their fair share of revenues.

You can read our terms and conditions of use, here: Terms & Conditions

You can upgrade your plan by logging into your account on our website, and opening Subscriptions.  There you will see a list of the different subscription options, where you can select which plan you may wish to change to. You cannot switch your subsciption to a different account. If you wish to do that, please cancel the subscription and then sign up to a new account. You can do this by following this link: Presto Music Streaming Subscriptions

We currently don't have a gifting service for our streaming service but we hope to launch this in the future.

Please follow this link to cancel your subscription and click on cancel my subscription Subscription Settings. You will continue to be able to access the streaming service until the end of the current months subscription. If you are signed up for the free trial, and wish to cancel, you will need to cancel before the 1st free trial month has expired. Unfortunately, due to agreements with the right holders, we are unable to issue refunds on any subscription payments. 

Presto Music's Streaming Service is currently available in 35 countries as follows: United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and 30 European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Iceland and Switzerland)

If you are having any technical problems at all, please email us at info@prestomusic.com. We will be happy to help you. Please send us the following information so that we can solve your problem as quickly as possible

1) If you are using the mobile app, what is the operating system (iOS or Android), make and model of device

2) If you are using the web streaming app, what type of computer are you using (ie Mac or Windows PC) and which web browser. You can use this link if you are not sure My Browser

3) If you are using the desktop app, which version are you using (Windows, Mac Intel or Mac Apple Silicon)

4) Are you listening via a headphone socket on your computer, wireless headphones, Bluetooth or Airplay to a speaker

I am having a problem with faulty or missing audio